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Football bridges South divide
AFP, Published on 21/05/2012
» PATTANI - A shared passion for football is uniting Buddhists and Muslims in the far south, where grassroots efforts to find elusive peace are gaining ground after years of bloodshed.
Illegal beauty clinics busted
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/12/2012
» Police raided three illegal beauty clinics in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district for allegedly using banned chemical substances such as glutathione, which they claimed could whiten and tone faces.
Naw Kham executed for sailor killings
News, Published on 02/03/2013
» Golden Triangle drug kingpin Naw Kham was executed in China on Friday along with three accomplices, including a Thai national, for murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011.
Asia has biggest drug trade
Published on 05/03/2013
» Asia has the largest drug factories for amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), the biggest crop areas of opium, and the most active drug trafficking neworks, according to the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB).
Thai sentenced to death in Vietnam
Published on 21/08/2013
» HANOI, Vietnam - A court in southern Vietnam sentenced a Thai woman to death for smuggling 2 kilogrammes of cocaine into the country, state media reported Wednesday.
5 sentenced to death for drug trafficking
Associated Press, Published on 14/12/2013
» HANOI - A court in central Vietnam has sentenced five people, including four women, to death and another to life in prison for trafficking heroin from neighbouring Laos.
Govt gives cash boost to farmers
News, Published on 02/10/2014
» The cabinet has approved a cash injection of up to 15,000 baht each for more than three million rice farmers nationwide as part of its 364.5-billion-baht stimulus package launched yesterday.
Siriraj claims breakthrough antibody treatment could cure Ebola
Online Reporters, Published on 02/10/2014
» Researchers at Siriraj Hospital, part of Mahidol University, claim they have developed the world’s first "antibody treatment" that could cure Ebola virus infections.
Critics slam freebie for farmers
Post Reporters, Published on 03/10/2014
» Critics have blasted the government's 40-billion baht cash injection to low-income rice farmers, saying the measure is only a face-saving ploy.
Police charge GP over dead Briton's cosmetic surgery
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/10/2014
» The doctor who performed buttock augmentation surgery on a 24-year-old British woman, resulting in her death, has been charged with negligence.